isCOBOL General

Question: What work is necessary to use Flexus COBOL sp2? Has it been tested? Answer: Yes, this has been tested and a customer application with GUI calls to SP2 functions has successfully run with isCOBOL. Set... Read More

Question: What are the basic differences between JISAM and c-treeRTG? What are the guidelines for choosing between them? Answer: Here are the benefits of each: Veryant JISAM isCOBOL Evolve supplies a high capacity, client/server, indexed ISAM... Read More

You can choose which file status codes you want to use by setting the iscobol.file.status runtime framework property iscobol.file.status This property specifies which file status codes to use. Set it to one of the following values: com... Read More

Question: I'd like to be able to step debug through COBOL source into a call to Java and have a Java debugger pop-up or attach and allow me to step through the Java source. How can I currently do that? Also, is there a way to step from a... Read More

Question: How can I secure the code generated by isCOBOL so that it cannot be decompiled? Do you provide a Java code obfuscator? If not, then which one do you recommend and how do I use it with the isCOBOL compiler? Answer: The Java... Read More

Question: With other COBOLs I can specify a configuration file on the command line and runtime configuration variables in the environment. How do I accomplish this with isCOBOL? Answer: You can specify a properties file on the command line as... Read More

Question:  Suppose my program controls Microsoft Word to do a Mail Merge. How do I do this with isCOBOL? Answer:  To control Microsoft Word or to perform OLE automation, isCOBOL requires a third-party... Read More

When doing multithread programming, it is a best practice that a program should not finish its processing until all of its threads are finished as well. In this article we provide a sample logic of how to check that all the threads started by a... Read More

There is an example that uses SMTP email in our sample programs, %ISCOBOL%sampleis-javaiscobol-uses-java-objectothersmailSENDMAIL.cbl This sample uses the JavaMail API to send SMTP emails from a COBOL program, first connecting to the SMTP,... Read More

QR codes can be generated as bitmap files using the ZXing (Zebra Crossing) barcode scanning library. All the file types supported by the W$BITMAP routine can be used. Here are the steps to compile and run the sample COBOL program (QRSAMPLE.cbl) which... Read More